8 research outputs found
Constrained Deep Transfer Feature Learning and its Applications
Feature learning with deep models has achieved impressive results for both
data representation and classification for various vision tasks. Deep feature
learning, however, typically requires a large amount of training data, which
may not be feasible for some application domains. Transfer learning can be one
of the approaches to alleviate this problem by transferring data from data-rich
source domain to data-scarce target domain. Existing transfer learning methods
typically perform one-shot transfer learning and often ignore the specific
properties that the transferred data must satisfy. To address these issues, we
introduce a constrained deep transfer feature learning method to perform
simultaneous transfer learning and feature learning by performing transfer
learning in a progressively improving feature space iteratively in order to
better narrow the gap between the target domain and the source domain for
effective transfer of the data from the source domain to target domain.
Furthermore, we propose to exploit the target domain knowledge and incorporate
such prior knowledge as a constraint during transfer learning to ensure that
the transferred data satisfies certain properties of the target domain. To
demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed constrained deep transfer feature
learning method, we apply it to thermal feature learning for eye detection by
transferring from the visible domain. We also applied the proposed method for
cross-view facial expression recognition as a second application. The
experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for
both applications.Comment: International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
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Recent Advances in Transfer Learning for Cross-Dataset Visual Recognition: A Problem-Oriented Perspective
This paper takes a problem-oriented perspective and presents a comprehensive
review of transfer learning methods, both shallow and deep, for cross-dataset
visual recognition. Specifically, it categorises the cross-dataset recognition
into seventeen problems based on a set of carefully chosen data and label
attributes. Such a problem-oriented taxonomy has allowed us to examine how
different transfer learning approaches tackle each problem and how well each
problem has been researched to date. The comprehensive problem-oriented review
of the advances in transfer learning with respect to the problem has not only
revealed the challenges in transfer learning for visual recognition, but also
the problems (e.g. eight of the seventeen problems) that have been scarcely
studied. This survey not only presents an up-to-date technical review for
researchers, but also a systematic approach and a reference for a machine
learning practitioner to categorise a real problem and to look up for a
possible solution accordingly
Object Detection and Classification in the Visible and Infrared Spectrums
The over-arching theme of this dissertation is the development of automated detection and/or classification systems for challenging infrared scenarios. The six works presented herein can be categorized into four problem scenarios. In the first scenario, long-distance detection and classification of vehicles in thermal imagery, a custom convolutional network architecture is proposed for small thermal target detection. For the second scenario, thermal face landmark detection and thermal cross-spectral face verification, a publicly-available visible and thermal face dataset is introduced, along with benchmark results for several landmark detection and face verification algorithms. Furthermore, a novel visible-to-thermal transfer learning algorithm for face landmark detection is presented. The third scenario addresses near-infrared cross-spectral periocular recognition with a coupled conditional generative adversarial network guided by auxiliary synthetic loss functions. Finally, a deep sparse feature selection and fusion is proposed to detect the presence of textured contact lenses prior to near-infrared iris recognition